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to provide us with a product that we will derive a recipe from,” said Tumlin, who has held a variety of positions at the university, such as production manager, catering chef and manager chef. At the three-year-old market’s spring opening yesterday, patrons watched Tumlin prepare a spring salad. He discussed how to handle the food and bring out the flavors as he sliced and diced. Junior Laura Dally stayed for the demo’s entirety to pick up a few pointers. “I live in an apartment and I am learning to cook
The former Kappa Sigma member who sent the now-viral offensive email in January 2014 will not be returning to the campus this semester “by mutual consent between the student involved, his family and the University,” according to an email Vice President for Student Affairs Linda Clement sent last night. Clement, along with university President Wallace Loh, Chief Diversity Officer Kumea Shorter-Gooden and Assistant President and Chief of Staff Michele Eastman, met with student group leaders earlier in the day to discuss how to heal from the incident. The student’s email, which surfaced online two weeks ago, used racist and sexist language, including the phrase “f--- consent.” “The focus of our discussion was how to move beyond the email, how our community, working together, can cultivate and maintain a healthy culture of respect, diversity, and equity,” Clement wrote. Clement’s email includes a list of measures already in the works, including the creation of a multicultural
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KEVIN FRYC, president of this university’s chapter of Kappa Sigma, makes a statement during last night’s Greek life forum. sung-min kim/the diamondback
200 turn out for Greek life open forum on diversity Students call for culture change after offensive fraternity email leaks By Grace Toohey @grace_2e Senior staff writer After reading the offensive email a former Kappa Sigma fraternity member sent in January 2014, Mattie Roesler, a new member of Alpha Chi Omega, said she is scared. “I’m scared to go to parties. I’m scared to be drugged. I’m just scared,” said Roesler, a freshman economics major, at a Greek community forum last night. “Older sisters warn us and tell us to pair up. Our pledge mom warns us not to take drinks out of this cup. … I don’t want to be scared.” More than 200 members of this university’s Greek Life organizations listened and shared at the open forum, addressing concerns, fears, regrets and plans to move forward from the leaked email. T he em a i l, wh ich app ea red online two weeks ago, used racial slu rs, sex ist la ng uage a nd the phrase “f--- consent.” “There’s stuff we need to do to make freshmen like me want to stay in this and want to invite other people into it and make it a safe community,” Roesler said. Some members of this university’s K appa Sig m a f ratern ity chapter attended and spoke out at the forum, including chapter President Kevin Fryc, who apologized on behalf of his organization for the incident that caused many to criticize the entirety of Greek life. “Yes, it’s unfair, but we’re put in a unique position where we’re under a spotlight right now,” said Fryc, a ju n ior accou nti ng a nd finance major. “A lot of people are looking at us and we can go one way: we can crumble and fall and be known for our faults or we can unite together and really put an end [to these problems].” S e n ior Sh a n non Cl a sh , t he former president of this university’s chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, a historically black sorority, agreed she would like to create a united front among Greek life organizations. But she doesn’t see it as that way currently — as a black woman, Clash said she is uncomfortable. See greek, Page 2
LARRY TUMLIN, new farmers market manager, prepares a spring salad with greens from Terp Farm as part of a cooking demo. stephanie natoli/the diamondback
COOKING UP A NEW BEGINNING Univ farmers market opens anew after management change By Joe Atmonavage @fus_dbk Staff writer Larry Tumlin has been cooking and prepping food behind the scenes at this university for 23 years, but now he’ll be doing it in front of an audience. Tumlin is the new manager of this university’s farmers market, and as part of an expansion of the market’s offerings, he will be putting on a cooking demonstration every Wednesday at noon to show off produce from vendors and Terp Farm. “We have a spotlight on them, and we ask them
Univ to revise policies after disability discrimination case By Ellie Silverman @esilverman11 Senior staff writer This university entered into a n ag reement w ith the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights on Monday to resolve a disability discrimination complaint and revise current disability procedures,
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The student who filed the complaint has dyslexia, a working memory deficiency and ADHD, according to legal documents from Michael Rosofsky, the attorney for the complainant. The student’s accommodations requ i red a n academ ic adjustment to allow time-and-a-half for See DISABILITY, Page 3
LGBT Equity Center creates academic group for students Lavender Honor Society praises LGBT leadership By Jess Nocera @jessmnocera Staff writer For Alexander Novarro, it has been an ongoing struggle to merge being part of the LGBT community with his academic and professional life. But with the creation of the Lavender Leadership Honor Society this semester, he will now have an outlet to do so. The honor society, an initiative of the university’s LGBT Equity Center, will create a community space for those who want to lead in LGBT inclusion, said center Associate Director Nick Sakurai. Sakurai was a key staff member in the formation of the honor society after he said he noticed a gap in inclusion communication
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among 17 LGBT organizations on the campus. “A lot of people aren’t aware of the LGBT inclusion work that is happening on campus, and this creates more [of a] place where they can,” Sakurai said. “It is as much as creating a network as well as recognizing people for their accomplishments.” Leaders from all of the groups will be able to come together for more collaboration and recognition of each other in the society, he said. The group will provide a space for people with similar passions, rather than forming an exclusive club, according to the Equity Center’s newsletter. Novarro, a second-year biology doctoral candidate and a founding member of the society, said he hopes the honor society builds “a community on campus, more resources
nick sakurai, LGBT Equity Center associate director, runs a training session on LGBT inclusion in May 2014. Sakurai is helping to create a safe space for LGBT students with an honor society. file photo/the diamondback and greater supporter systems in the LGBT community.” Novarro was previously the co-facilitator of Trans U and is the current president of this university’s chapter of OUT! in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. He said he hopes to use the skills he devel-
ops in the society and translate it to OUT! Earlier in this semester, he attended the Lavender Leadership Retreat along with other students from this university to learn leadership skills See society, Page 3
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“It’s d iscou rag i ng. It’s not everyone, I understand, but the email was sent out, people saw it and nothing was said,” the journalism major said. “We have to do a better job.” O t her students echoed Clash’s senti ment, h ig hlighting a division between the Interfraternity Council a nd t he Pa n hel len ic A ssociation and the National Pan-Hellenic Council and the Multicultural Greek Council. At te n d e e s d i s c u s s e d a number of ideas to address the issue, including improving new-member education and making a greater effort to hold peers accountable. The Department of Fraternity & Sorority Life will also mandate sexual assault prevention, multicultural competency, hazing prevention and drug and alcohol education programs for all Greek life members starting next year, according to an email Vice President for Student Affairs Linda Clement sent last night. “We all have a long way to go when it per ta i ns to u nd ers t a nd i n g d i f ferent sides,” said Erica Williams, the Kappa Phi chapter president of Delta Sigma Theta. Junior Kristen Yant is not a member of Greek life, but decided to attend the event to share her experiences. She described an incident when fraternity members assumed she would have sex with one of them, but she refused. “T his is an issue that affects everybody, not just the Greek community,” the physiology and neurobiology major said. Being part of a Greek organization can create a sense of community, she said, but it can also foster complacency. S e n i o r J o s h Ya k o v, a
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Department of Fraternity & Sorority Life director member of Kappa Sigma, responded to Yant’s comments. “I messed up. I didn’t say a ny t h i n g,” t he accou nting and finance major said. “From this experience, I’m going to learn. And if I hear something, I’m going to say something.” Paul Becker, IFC president, said community members should seek to use their tight bonds to prevent poor behavior instead of ignoring it. “A lot of fraternities, we hold lifelong brotherhood, love no matter what, and we use it as an excuse. We let
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email From PAGE 1 student adv i sor y g roup that would counsel Loh on diversity issues. “Obviously the administration knows diversity and multiculturalism are issues on campus, but it’s hard for them to see what students really want,” said Student Government Association President Patrick Ron k, who attended yesterday’s meeting. “It’s great to have a direct line to President Loh to talk about the issues we’re facing on the student level.” The Department of Fraternity & Sorority Life will begin mandatory training programs on sexual assault prevention, multicultural competency, hazing prevention and drug and alcohol education for its members beginning next year, the email states.
mandatory diversity training. Ju n ior K ev i n F r yc, t he president of this university’s chapter of Kappa Sigma, said he hopes other chapters follow suit and each pledge between $500 and $1,000 to fund an annual retreat focused on diversity for 50 Greek life members. “T he issue of d iversity in fraternities all over the nation has been ignored for a long time,” the accounting and finance major said. “If Greek life is going to continue, it can’t keep going in the direction it’s going and the first step is inclusion and acceptance of all races, sexes, religions and creeds.” T he SG A a nd of f ic e of Multicultural Involvement & Community Advocacy plan to co-host an open forum at 3 p.m. in Stamp Student Union Colony Ballroom next Thursday. Loh, Clement and Shorter-Gooden will attend along with Matt Supple, the DFSL director, and Catherine Carroll, this university’s Title IX coordinator. “We certainly won’t stop there,” said Paul Becker, this university’s IFC president. “We’re certainly looking for more concrete solutions for the general student body. We’re looking to make those steps forward in kind of tangible ways.”
The DFSL has also applied for a grant to hire a graduate student to educate fraternities and sororities on diversity throughout the year, and is working to implement a social justice project for its chapters on “quality multicultural competence programs.” “While we are a diverse campus, we’re kind of selfsegregated a little bit,” Ronk said. “We’re hoping to open up avenues where [Interfraternity Council] and [Maryland Panhellenic Association] and [National Pan-Hellenic Council], [Multicultural Greek Council] can have events together and we can have actual multicultural events.” This university’s chapter of Kappa Sigma has pledged $500 to the Office of Diversity & Inclusion to work on diversity programming within Greek life. Together with Kappa Sigma, the office trichmandbk@gmail.com, will also work to determine jzimmermanndbk@gmail.com
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House bill to up hazing penalties fails SOCIETY By Jon Banister @J_Banister Senior staff writer A state bill that would have increased the criminal penalty for hazing failed last week when the House Judiciary Committee voted 17-3 to give it an unfavorable report. The bill, sponsored in the House by Del. Karen Lewis Young (D-Frederick), would have raised the fine for hazing from $500 to $5,000 and expanded hazing’s definition to encompass any act that “[subjects] a student to the risk of serious bodily injury, regardless of whether injury actually occurs.” Currently, the law states “a person may not recklessly or intentionally do an act or create a situation that subjects a student to the risk of serious bodily injury for the purpose of an initiation into a student organization of a school, college, or university.” At both House and Senate hearings, students from local universities shared stories of the abuse they allegedly received while pledging and
the impact it had on them. No parties testified in opposition at either the House or Senate hearing. “Turning this down adds insult to injury to those students who showed up and had the courage to share their trauma and humiliation, and then we turn around and say, ‘We’re not going to help you,’” Young said. Ryan Belcher, shared governance director for the Student Government Association, testified in support of the bill at the Senate hearing and submitted written testimony for the House hearing. “If this bill had passed and it even mitigated one instance of that happening in the future, I would consider it a success,” Belcher said. “When you don’t have much beef in a regulation or law, a person can get away with something or do more of these violent acts of hazing and there’s not going to be a deterrent. … It’s essentially just staying with the status quo, and with the status quo we’ve obviously seen some really bad stuff happen.” Del. Kathleen Dumais (D-
ryan belcher, the SGA shared governance director, testifies at a state Senate committee hearing for a hazing consequences bill on Feb. 26. jon banister/for the diamondback Montgomery), vice chair of the committee that voted down the bill, said the committee agreed the student testimonies were “egregious,” but thought the perpetrators could be tried for other crimes l i ke assau lt, wh ich holds stiffer penalties. “W hat the concern was is it simply raised the fine,” Dumais said. “There was a sense on the committee that criminal law would sort of cover some of the behavior that was discussed. I just don’t think increasing the fine would solve the problem.” She said the three delegates who voted in support of the bill were compelled by the students’ testimonies, but ultimately the committee
SGA passes bill to add student activity fee increase to ballot By Taylor Swaak @tswaak27 Staff writer The SGA unanimously voted last night in favor of a bill that will add a question to its election ballot regarding a student activities fee increase. The vote was 20-0, with no abstentions. This university’s undergraduate students will now have the opportunity to vote during the Student Government Association elections – to be held April 22 to April 24 – on whether they support a student activities fee increase of $5.28. T he fee i ncrease wou ld bring in about $160,000, said Brian Nowak, SGA vice president of financial affairs. The increase, which would be an annual charge, would not be implemented until fall 2017 because the Board of Regents finalized the fiscal year 2016 budget in December. “The only time the student activities fee can be increased is when students vote for an increase,” SGA President Patrick Ronk said. “Students
disability From PAGE 1 a sessments t h i s pa st semester in M AT H115: Precalculus, taught by professor Frances Gulick. Gulick received the accommodation form, which states that the student is expected to speak w it h t he professor about specific needs. Rosofsky said Gulick allotted the student extra time, which is also reflected in the student’s correspondence with Benjamin Perlow, a Disability Support Service counselor. T he student w rote i n a Sept. 19 email to Perlow that when the student spoke to Gulick after class about receiving the approved extra time, she advised the student to s it i n t h e b a c k o f t h e lecture hall during quizzes for a few extra minutes. On Oct. 12, the student sent another email to Perlow stating that sitting in the back of the room was not sufficient to receive extra time and it adversely affected the student’s quiz grades. Quizzes were always given near the end of class, Gulick said, so students who needed extra time were permitted to finish after the allotted time was up. In addition, she said,
decided the fine increase was unnecessary. After the House Judiciary Committee voted down the bill, the Senate committee unanimously followed suit. Young said she is committed to addressing the issue of hazing and plans to reintroduce the bill in next year’s legislative session. “I’m going to do a lot of research over the interim and look at best practices around the country and bring the bill back in a new and improved form and answer some of the objections I heard and try to get them on board beforehand,” Young said. jbanisterdbk@gmail.com
student groups more money.” Nowak said if the student activities fee is voted to pass in April, the SGA would allocate $80,000 to $90,000 solely to student groups. T he SGA has sufficient funding, Ronk said, and would not seek to take extra money brought in from the fee increase. Sophomore psycholog y major Jaclyn Webber said the extra $5.28 could be worth it for students. “[The student activities increase] is definitely a viable thing to do, because whatever we’re putting our money toward is going toward student groups for all 37,000 students who go here,” Webber said. Andrea Holtermann, a democracy assistant campaign coordinator for student advocacy group MaryPIRG, said she supports the increase, as it would help boost the organization’s visibility on the campus. “We would be able to definitely do more PR, bigger events in general,” said Holtermann, a sophomore enrolled in letters and sciences. “And we’re a student advocacy group, so the more money we have, the more things we can do and the more we can give back to the community.”
h ave d i rect cont rol over whether it increases.” Students cu rrently pay $37.52 each semester toward the student activities fee, Nowak said. The most recent increase was in 2012, when students approved a $2 raise. The fee increase is needed to help fund about 400 student groups on the campus, Ronk said. Last December, the SGA cut 90 percent of its funding to student groups, and this month, it received about $60,000 in funding requests despite having about $11,000 to dole out. “We’re facing a time right now where student groups are requesting money for a lot of great events, and unfortunately, the SGA just doesn’t have the money to allocate to all of those groups,” Ronk said. “No one wants to increase fees, but an increase will see tons of benefits to the student groups because they’ll be able to have more event programming.” Terrapi n Beats Society member Adam Weiner said student groups have been pushing boundaries with their
programming and need financial support to continue expanding. Increased funding would allow the organization to plan large-scale events with more ease and also open the door to the possibility of smaller scale events for targeted audiences, such as a techno music concert. “A lot of the groups are putting on more and more impressive events, and as they do, the money starts to run out,” the senior computer science major said. “It’s just a logical next step to get the fee increased and provide more money.” Nowak said Student Entertainment Events members first highlighted the funding issue when they told the SGA they were struggling to support themselves. They need $48,500 in new funding, he said. “SEE came to us and said that their Homecom ing Comedy Show was goi ng to be difficult or impossible to sustain going forward,” Nowak said. “We went and looked at what we needed to do to the fee to give them that money … and in giving them that money we’d also be giving tswaakdbk@gmail.com
each quiz was about five to seven minutes long, so the extra time would be about t w o -a n d-a-h a l f t o fo u r minutes more. The student also wrote to Disability Support Service Director Jo Ann Hutchinson about d i f f icu lty copy i ng dow n t he qu i z questions because of dyslexia. Hutchinson informed Gulick of the student’s complaints, and Gulick then emailed the student to say she would give the student a copy of the quiz in class with the questions already written on it. The student’s complaint alleges that Gulick “retaliated” against the student when she required the student to raise a hand in class to be given that written copy. This forced the student to self-identify to a class of more than 200 as a student with a disability, Rosofsky said. “I reluctantly raised my hand … grabbed the paper and sunk into my seat embarrassed that I was receiving the same typed version of the quiz that she used to write on the board; allowing the entire class to conclude that I had dyslexia,” the student wrote on Nov. 3. Gulick said she called the student’s name to locate the student in the large lecture hall because the student did
not raise a hand before she called the student’s name. “The student had not told me this, that [the student] had trouble copying the quiz from the board, so I wrote out a copy of the quiz to hand to that student,” Gulick said. “The student did not identify [him- or herself] as the quizzes were being passed out, so I didn’t know.” Gulick, who has worked at the university for the past 36 years, also said professors receive no training on how to accommodate students with disabilities. The university currently does not have a formal, mandatory training to teach faculty about disability accommodations, said Linda Clement, student affairs vice president. “If I had a place where I could go to see … ‘Here are some things you might see,’ so at least we know what to expect in the classroom and maybe even how to deal with it,” Gulick said. “I could not have read from the student’s accommodations or anything else what the u nderly i ng problem was.” Clement agreed the university must do more to educate professors about d isability accommodations, but she also said it’s not possible to implement a formal train-
ing that educates all faculty about every disability they could encounter. “We have to educate the faculty, certainly,” Clement said, “but I think training everyone on every disability would probably be very challenging.” Clement signed the agreement outlining the university’s course of action. That includes sending a memora ndu m by Apri l 15 to a l l people involved in delivering academic adjustments to students with disabilities, as a reminder to provide the adjustments in a timely manner and refrain from “retaliating” against those asking for an approved adjustment. The university will send a separate memorandum to Gulick by April 1. Rosofsky sa id he is not pleased with the requirements and would have preferred for the Office for Civil Rights to issue a thorough investigation of the university’s program. “It’s a crime for this to be going on in a school, especially with the resources like the University of Maryland,” Rosofsky said. “Just the fact that all they have to do is send a memorandum out … I’m not happy with it at all.” esilvermandbk@gmail.com
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useful as part of the honor society. “The entire retreat was about building yourself up and how to relay that to others,” said Rebecca Wilson, a freshman criminology and criminal justice major. Wilson, also a member of Theta Pi Sigma — the gender-neutral LGBTQA fraternity on the campus — said the honor society will foster an environment to enhance the information learned on the retreat. “After a conference like that, it just shows you that there are a lot of general leadership possibilities that aren’t sensitive towards the needs of sexual orientation and gender identity,” said Errin Saunders, a sophomore environmental science and policy major. Junior environmental science and policy major Sam Sauter, another founding member, said she hopes the society will give people who are interested and invested in the community the skills to take their experi-
“HAVING A GROUP LIKE THIS IS REALLY SPECIAL BECAUSE WE ARE KIND OF MARGINALIZED ALL THE TIME, SO TO SEE THAT WE CAN MAKE CHANGE TOGETHER IS REALLY IMPORTANT.” SAM SAUTER
Junior environmental science and policy major ences and empower others. “I d id n’t th i n k leadership would help me, but it has helped me reach more people,” Sauter said. “Having a group like this is really special because we are kind of marginalized all the time, so to see that we can make change together is really important.” After interested members submit their applications by April 2, the first group of people will be inducted on April 20. “I think we will be inducting a couple dozen people,” Sa k u ra i sa id. “I’m happy about that, because those that are in LGBT inclusion don’t normally have a community and now will.” jnoceradbk@gmail.com
above: allison lilly distributes samples of food at the Farmers Market. below: A spring salad prepared by the new farmers market manager. stephanie natoli/the diamondback
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ability and wellness coordinator and a former co-chair of the farmers market committee. The committee contracted out a market manager to recruit vendors. But when the grant money that paid for the contract ran out this year, the committee needed another source of funding, which led it to Dining Services, Lilly said. Dining Services sponsored the ma rket last yea r, a nd with the university’s hiring freeze mandate, which went into effect in December, Lilly said Dining Services staff taking over full-time made the most sense. “It seemed more logical to h ave a n i nter n a l sta f f member to ma nage the market rather than having an external contractor and trying to manage the budget a l ittle more closely on campus,” she said. W h i le the ma nagement has changed, Lilly said many of the stakeholders who were involved in the committee are still engaged in the market’s operation. Like people stopping by at the demonstration yesterday, managers will come and go, but Tumlin and the farmers market will still be providing food for the university.
r ig ht now, so I wa nted to learn some tips to eat healthier,” said Dally, a computer science major. Besides T u m l i n’s cooking demo, the market looks similar to seasons past. A variety of booths with fresh fruits, meats, pastries and other local food products lined the sidewalk outside of Cole Field House, though this year’s market boasts more lo c a l ve nd ors, i nc lu ding Cove Point Winery, Southern Maryland’s oldest winery, and Dress It Up Dressing, which sells four vinaigrette dressings based on family recipes. “It’s a great market to tap into,” said Nick Stavely, a salesman for Dress It Up Dressing. “You can access all the students, faculty and staff and still the town of College Park. It’s good to have a showing at the state’s flagship university.” However, the biggest changes to the market are internal. For its first three years, the market was managed by a collaborative committee, said Allison Lilly, Dining Services sustain- jatmonavagedbk@gmail.com
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or students at this university, discussing disabilities with the Disability Support Service office to secure special accommodations all too often only marks the beginning of a knockdown, drag-out fight to be recognized in the classroom. Though the Americans with Disabilities Act and university policy require professors to implement DSS-approved classroom accommodations, professors frequently resist such changes to their normal lecturing and testing routines. Among the common complaints cited by students with DSS-approved accommodations: professors refusing to grant extended time on tests and quizzes (typically time-and-a-half), not permitting students to record lectures and not providing students with written copies of assignments or examinations. Admittedly, professors receive little in the way of disability support training; many acknowledge existing training is inadequate, while some say they’ve received no training at all. A December civil rights complaint lodged against this university with the U.S. Education Department — which the university resolved Monday through a voluntary resolution agreement — illustrates the sorry state of disability services on this campus. According to the complaint, university mathematics professor Frances Gulick discriminated against a precalculus student with DSS-approved accommodations by failing to give the student time-and-a-half to complete quizzes and forcing the student to self-identify in class as having a disability. The complaint also states the university didn’t maintain adequate
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This university must provide comprehensive training to professors regarding disability accommodations. Gulick had explicitly granted the student time-and-a-half on exams, but because she typically allowed the students up to four additional minutes to complete the five-minute quizzes, she maintained that the accommodation was already in place. After the student complained to DSS in a series of emails that Gulick had not granted the same accommodation for quizzes as for exams, Gulick allowed the student to finish the quizzes after class in an attempt to fulfill the timeand-a-half stipulation. Shortly thereafter, the student clarified to DSS that dyslexia forced him or her to rewrite the quizzes — written by Gulick on the board — on paper to avoid making errors. After corresponding with DSS, Gulick offered the student printed copies of quizzes, asking the student to raise his or her hand in class so she could hand out a paper copy, leading to the self-identification portion of the complaint. While Gulick certainly violated university policy by not implementing the student’s accommodations as
outlined by DSS, the frequency with which such missteps occur suggests a problem that’s more systemic. Her mistakes come off as indicative of a lack of training rather than malicious intent. Gulick and Linda Clement, student affairs vice president, both told The Diamondback that they feel professors aren’t trained to handle all accommodations, a complaint we’ve heard often from other instructors. Some have even gone so far as to say they wouldn’t want their own children with disabilities to attend the university, citing a lack of efficacy within the DSS office and a lack of understanding among professors. It’s apparent that professors need to follow more closely the conditions laid out by DSS for students with disabilities, and it’s as clear that they need more guidance. Students deserve an environment that caters to their diverse needs, and a dearth of resources for faculty inhibits their education. The level of disability training faculty at this university currently receives is noticeably inadequate, and it’s telling that the university settled. According to the settlement, this university agreed to revise its student grievance process to ensure all complaints are investigated in full. It also agreed to “publicize” to faculty and staff their duty to “provide academic adjustments in a timely manner.” With the voluntary resolution agreement, the university avoided further federal investigation into its disability services, a surefire public-relations nightmare. Let’s hope the near miss motivates the university to revisit its current disability training standards — or lack thereof — as well.
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don’t know about you, but it always seemed ridiculous to me that you’re expected to know what you want to do for a living at age 18. You’ve just legally become an adult, you go to college and now you have to choose something to study for the next four years that will define your life and career options. No pressure! As overwhelming a process as that was for me, I figured I enjoyed science, particularly biology and chemistry, so I’d combine those interests in this fun major called biochemistry. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed biochemistry, but it wasn’t until I was about a year and a half into the degree that I realized I didn’t want to work in a lab. Now what? Hey, I like writing, so I’ll try English. But I couldn’t just drop biochemistry — I’d come too far! So I ended up doing both and graduating with a very interesting degree combination. I’d tried a number of part-time jobs and internships throughout college, and I slowly realized that public health was for me. It took me a while to get there, but I went back to school to work on my master’s degree, and that led me here. I only go into this kind of detail because I was reflecting on my experience earlier this week, and I realized something very comforting: None of the choices you make are definitive. I used to be terrified to make a decision, afraid I would make the wrong choice, choose the wrong path, and my life would
be ruined. In just a few short years, I’ve come to realize there is no wrong choice and there is no “ruined.” All that exists is forward motion. If I had decided not to decide, taken my time, not tried a bunch of different things throughout college, I never would have found what I truly enjoyed. Ultimately, the best way to find what you love is to find what you don’t love. It’s easy to say you love something in theory, but in practice, your job might be totally different than you expected. And that’s not a bad thing because you’re still learning! You’ve learned that this isn’t for you, and now you’re one step closer to something that is for you. But how can you start fresh? Here’s something else I’ve learned: Even if you change majors, degrees or careers, you’re never starting completely fresh. Your past experiences don’t disappear. They continue to define and shape you, and they give you valuable experiences that, whether you realize or not, you’ll be able to apply in your next field. And no job is totally set in stone. You might be able to incorporate something you love or an interest you have into a new job simply because you are you, and you are uniquely positioned to make use of that skill. Nothing is as concrete and finite as we think. The only thing that keeps marching on whether you do or not is time, which means the only wrong decision is no decision. I’m not saying you shouldn’t think things through, but you also shouldn’t let your fear of making a choice prevent you from trying something new. You don’t learn anything if you’re standing still. Sa m a n t h a Wa t t e rs i s a graduate student in the Master of Public Health program. She can be reached at swattersdbk@gmail.com.
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hat is the leading cause of premature deaths worldwide? Is it al-Qaeda, ISIS, wars, reckless drivers, cancer, the Mafia? Or biofuel advocates like former Republican President George W. Bush, current Democratic President Barack Obama and other less famous politicians from every state in the union? Over the past 20 years, global biofuel production and resultant decreases in access to food have killed people worldwide. As malnutrition disproportionately kills young children, let’s assume the average height of biofuel victims is just three feet tall. Victims are of all ages, from babies to teenagers to adult men and women and the elderly. One-anda-half million bodies with an average height of 3 feet would make an unbroken line of corpses about 850 miles long, and that is a ridiculously low estimation, as food and hunger experts have given me death estimates many times greater. I keep my own estimate artificially low to make it mathematically bulletproof against pro-biofuel politicians who don’t like my revealing the truth of their “crime against humanity.” That characterization is a direct quote from former United Nations Special Rapporteur Jean Ziegler. Our politicians’ unnecessary war against the human food supply produces a highly diffuse crime scheme, with bodies spread out all over the
world. That is why our television news media do not cover the story and our politicians go unpunished. Global biofuel production has raised the cost of fertilizer, farmland and food all over the world, and it has contributed to topsoil erosion. America’s prime Midwest topsoil is being depleted. What will our grandchildren eat when the rest has been eroded away producing grains to make energy-inefficient ethanol and biodiesel? Countless studies and even the federal government’s own National Research Council found that biofuel farming can create more greenhouse gas emissions than using ordinary gasoline, so there is certainly no environmental excuse for killing so many people in the name of being “green.” Biofuel farming also increases water pollution and deforestation, and it is depleting our finite supplies of phosphates, which are needed to make fertilizer. Ethanol contains one-third less energy per gallon than gasoline, which needlessly reduces our miles per gallon. Ethanol also holds water and causes engine damage. There are no good biofuels now and there never will be in the future because of the ecological disruption you invariably inflict on Mother Earth when you try to use fresh biology to replace the ancient, fossilized biology called oil. For example, turning crop waste into biofuels instead of plowing it under in-
creases topsoil erosion and soil depletion, requiring the use of more fertilizers, which causes water pollution and increased greenhouse gas emissions. Many of you are too young to remember that food used to be inexpensive in America. When I grew up, I never even knew anyone who used food stamps, but now we are a nation of food stamp recipients, and dairy products and meat have become luxury items too costly for many to afford. Biofuels have increased the cost of all foods that require fertilizer and farmland to grow,and all foods derived from farm animals that have to be fed. The higher the cost of food, the more people die; the equation is that simple. Malnutrition is also a major cause of mental retardation in children. Write your senators and congressmen and ask them why biofuels are mandated and subsidized instead of being banned as a crime against nature and man. For scientific details and better carbon-free energy solutions, such as non-radioactive lowenergy nuclear reactions and simplified hot fusion technology, please search for my website, The Renewable Energy Disaster, and watch my dramatic 15-minute video, “The Global Biofuel Disaster.” C h r i s t o p h e r C a l d e r i s a fo o d security activist. He can be reached at calderconnection@gmail.com.
here is something strange about Arizona senator and onetime Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s preoccupation with arming Ukraine, in that it has nothing to do with communism, the United States’ main concern in that part of the world in decades past. However, this concern about communism in the past didn’t single out socialist states within the Soviet empire, such as Ukraine, for special concern. The concern was for the empire as a whole and on a global scale. Does McCain fear that Russia will become communist again if it doesn’t stay within its present bounds? If so, this fear is unrealistic in that the fall of communism in 1991 didn’t require the breakup of the Soviet empire. It just happened that way. The empire could’ve continued intact even if communism were defeated within it. As for the high stakes involved in the United States arming Ukraine, let us not forget the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 and numerous false alarms during the Cold War that apparently came close to setting off nuclear-armed missiles. The missile crisis of 1962 might’ve been exaggerated, or at least there was no real danger then of the world blowing itself up in a nuclear holocaust. The same might be said for all of those false alerts, whether they occurred in Russia or the United States. But do we really know that? Though it didn’t happen in 1962 or those other times, how close, really, was the world to a nuclear holocaust back then? Is this the kind of world that McCain and others like him want us to return to, by insisting that Ukraine be armed? Even former President Jimmy
Carter wants to arm Ukraine, as he armed Afghans against the Soviets back in 1979. Assuming the seriousness of the threat back then, in 1962, how could those responsible for allowing a situation like that develop ever be forgiven? That kind of world, and the world that produced all those false alerts, could have been entirely prevented if the Russians’ atomic weapons project had been stopped in the late 1940s, even if by force. Though there are some who argue that, even though the United States held a monopoly on atomic weaponry in the late 1940s and held this advantage over the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin, it could not have prevented the Soviet Union from becoming a nuclear power. And they could be correct. But if Russia could’ve been prevented from building nuclear weapons, it would’ve saved us and the world a whole lot of trouble. However, it looks as if the United States didn’t even try seriously to stop the process that was turning the Soviet Union into a nuclear power, or at least it didn’t give serious thought to the means to do so. Instead, it seemed to spend all of its time worrying about Korea, China or other peripheral issues. Mainland China at that time was nowhere near becoming a nuclear power, and it only became one later perhaps because of crucial help from a nuclear-armed Soviet Union. And the same can perhaps be said of North Korea, with which the Russians seem to be becoming friendly again, because of McCain’s, and others’, preoccupation with arming Ukraine. Jonathan Miller is a graduate student studying geography. He can be reached at jsmiller@umd.edu.
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CONCERT REVIEW| TOBIAS JESSO JR. AT SIXTH & I
perfectly paradoxical Shaggy, soulful and sweet, indie-pop wunderkind Jesso Jr. lived up to Internet-driven hype at recent Washington show BY THE NUMBERS
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The music playing throughout the Sixth & I synagogue in Washington just minutes before Tobias Jesso Jr. took the stage was somewhat indicative of an undeniable truth: Jesso is a walking paradox. Upstairs, British songstress Adele crooned over a patiently seated crowd. Downstairs, indie stalwarts Modest Mouse eased flannel-clad drink buyers into the night’s show.
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“I’M CALLING THIS THE FAREWELL TOUR ... NIGHT TWO AND I’M ALREADY WEARING SWEATPANTS.” TOBIAS JESSO JR.
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The songs are reminders that Jesso stands on a pedestal that has at least two diametrically opposed supports: On one side, t h e re ’s t h e re l a t ive a n o ny m ity that ushers him in with the indie likes of HAIM and ex-Girls member JR White. On the other, there’s the undeniable power pop sound that has garnered Twitter support from both Chloë Grace Moretz and Adele herself. The Canadian songwriter — “I’m a songwriter-slash-nothing,” he told the crowd — has one album, a couple of singles, and yet he’s already made a name much too large for the intimate performance he gave Tuesday night. While his debut album, Goon, is cemented in the indie hall of fame by Pitchfork’s 8.5 rating and “Best New Music” anointment, he is also becoming something of a pop juggernaut, the names Joel and Lennon already being tossed around in comparison.
TOBIAS JESSO JR. performed for a sold-out crowd at the Sixth & I historic synagogue in Washington on Tuesday. The buzzed-about performer charmed the crowd with self-deprecating banter and deeply passionate performances of singles including “How Could You Babe.” photo courtesy of diymag.com Luckily, he doesn’t seem to know what he is, either. He casually and humbly walked onstage after watching opener Okay Kaya’s entire soulful set. He even gave her a much-needed “You’re killin’ it!” as the Norwaybred up-and-comer bounced nervously through her beautifully melancholy “Clouds.” “I’m calling this the farewell to u r,” h e a n n o u n ce d . “ N i g h t two a n d I ’m a l rea dy wea r i n g
sweatpants.” Goofy and lovably self-deprecating, Jesso cracked jokes, mostly at his own expense, throughout the set. At 6 feet 7 with a mop of unruly brown hair, a sheepish smile and wide-with-wonder blue eyes, he seems more like an unkempt 18-year-old than a music-biz veteran of 29 who’s already had his fair share of successes and failures. Until he starts singing.
Lanky frame hunched, teeth gritted and facial expression distorted, Jesso transformed while making his music. He blushingly introduced “Can We Still Be Friends” as the Cheers song (his mom thinks the two sound similar — and they kind of do) but after the first chord, he was all business, a songsmith and his craft, a poet and his pen, Lennon and a piano. And so went the rest of the night. “If I sound out of tune, [the
piano] was tuned today, so don’t blame it,” he said. “Blame me.” But there was little reason to worry; Jesso glided though the bluesy and subdued “Bad Words” and sweetly pining “True Love,” his gigantic hands never missing a note. Oscillating effortlessly between his twin roles of unsure newbie (he would stop and ask “Does everything sound OK?”) and concentrating, tortured balladeer (the power vocals on his ’70s-sounding “How Could You Babe” probably could’ve shaken the synagogue down), Jesso won the evening with his warm personality as much as his musical prowess. He’s a regular guy, but he’s not. He’s unsure, but he shouldn’t be. And that will get him places far b eyo n d t h e coz y, a n o ny m o u s venues in which he’s kicked off his tour. After taking the time to sign autographs for practically 100 people (including one very jazzed Diamondback reporter), Jesso might not be able to sing about not having “no bestest friend until the end” because fans, both indie and otherwise, should be busting down his door relatively soon. dohldbk@gmail.com
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Terps travel to Northwestern for fourth top-five bout Dominant programs with storied postseason rivalry meet in Big Ten opener for 1st time as conference foes By Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Staff writer The Terrapins women’s lacrosse team has battled three opponents ranked in the NCAA’s top five through its first nine games this season. The Terps prevailed in each of those bouts. The first two contests, against then-No. 2 North Carolina and then-No. 5 Syracuse, provided the Terps, newcomers in the Big Ten, with victories over former ACC rivals. The third win came against then-No. 5 Florida in the first-ever meeting between the two programs. Tonight, the No. 1 Terps will travel to Evanston, Illinois, to face their fourth topfive foe of the season in No. 4 Northwestern. And while the game marks the start of the Terps’ inaugural Big Ten slate, it comes against an opponent that coach Cathy Reese’s squad is accustomed
to meeting in the postseason. “We haven’t seen Northwestern during the regular season in the past, so it’s exciting for us,” Reese said. “As kind of the landscape of college athletics changes, this is definitely a rivalry that’s developed over the years, and we’re looking forward to again competing against a very talented and tough team tomorrow night.” The two programs’ past four clashes have all come in the playoffs, most recently in last year’s national semifinal game. The Terps prevailed, 9-6, on May 23 before claiming victory in the national championship game later that weekend. “It’s exciting, especially for me personally,” defender Alice Mercer said. “I’ve only played them once, and that was last year in semis, where there was so much on the line, and I think it’s exciting to be able to play them in the regular season. Obviously there’s
BIGS From PAGE 8 “We have got to be able to combat [Duke’s height] with our size and our power and our strength,” coach Brenda Frese said. “We have shown all season long with great effort and hard work that we will be able to really match up pretty well.” In five postseason games this year, Howard has scored in double figures once. Jones, who averaged 13.6 points in conference play, has only eclipsed 10 points against the Aggies and Tigers. The production hit a low point in the first half of Monday’s contest,
history between our teams. I think that’s why it makes it such a big deal.” Last year’s title continued a recent trend for both the Terps (9-0) and the Wildcats (5-2). In 16 of the past 20 seasons, dating back to 1995, either the Terps or Northwestern has won the national title. The duo’s dominance has come in stretches. The Terps claimed seven straight championships from 1995 to 2001 and added two of the program’s 12 total titles in 2010 and 2014. The Wildcats, meanwhile, commanded the national stage with four titles from 2005 to 2009 and two more in 2011 and 2012. Northwestern beat the Terps in the championship to claim its 2011 crown. While the teams typically duel in the postseason, the opportunity to face the Wildcats on a regular basis is exciting for a Terps program that had strong ties to the ACC.
during which neither starting frontcourt player attempted a field goal. That didn’t pose a problem, though, because as they have done during the winning streak, the Terps took what the defense gave them. Princeton was making a concerted effort to shut down the paint, which allowed the Terps’ guards to find open shots. Even without looks down low in the first half, the team shot better than 50 percent. “They were sucking in on us, so our guards, they were open, and they hit shots,” Howard said. “That’s just what makes us such a good team.” Because Duke has more post size than Princeton, Brown doesn’t expect the Blue Devils to play a sagging
MIDFIELDER TAYLOR CUMMINGS tries to split two defenders during the Terps’ 9-6 win over Northwestern last season. file photo/the diamondback “Leaving the ACC was sad, especially for our coaches, and Cathy’s been a part of the ACC for as long as she’s been here,” Mercer said. “It’s another step, and it’s another opportunity and a new beginning, and we’re just looking to compete and get better in the Big Ten.” The Terps hold an 8-6 alltime edge over Northwestern, including a 3-2 record in postseason meetings.
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Terrapins women’s basketball guard defense, which she said should open the passing lanes into the low block. And while the Terps haven’t faced a team that starts three players of the Blue Devils’ size, they remain confident in their ability to score
So though the teams have never consistently faced each other in the regular season, Reese expects the annual meetings between the Terps and the Wildcats will be beneficial for the growth of the sport in the Terps’ first year in the Big Ten. And to have the chance to do so in a televised, top-five matchup has Reese and her squad even more eager to
in the paint against their former ACC foe. “It’s just going to be up to Bri and Malina to score around the big girls, because that’s a lot of length,” Brown said. On Wednesday, in their last practice in College Park before flying to Spokane, Washington, the Terps had a chance to match up with the scout team, which is comprised of male students. It was the only chance Frese’s squad will have to battle the men before Saturday’s bout, and it helped prepare them for Duke. “The scout team was awesome,” Howard said. “They’re so big. Playing against guys is always
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ATTACKMAN COLIN HEACOCK shields a defender during the Terps’ 8-1 victory over Navy on Feb. 14 in Annapolis. Heacock scored once in the win. chistian jenkins/the diamondback
HEACOCK From PAGE 8 attackman Dylan Maltz elected to transfer to this university, but Tillman still needed increased production from some of his unheralded players. In the first six games of the season, Heacock came off the bench to score three goals. But over the teams past two games, he’s stepped his game up. W h i l e R a m b o re m a i n s the most prominently featured member of last year’s freshman group, T illman
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helpful, especially when we are about to go play against people that are so much bigger. If you can go against the guys, then you can go against girls.” If the Blue Devils defense focuses on the centers, the Terps are confident their guards will be able to take over as they did Monday. But they also expect Jones and Howard to get back to their regular-season production, despite Duke’s interior presence. “I’m excited for Bri and Malina because sometimes they get overlooked as big players in college basketball,” Brown said. “They are some of the best bigs in the country.”
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build upon their season-long, nine-game winning streak Thursday night. “[It’s] a unique opportunity of having a top-five matchup to open the Big Ten season,” Reese said. “It’s just really exciting for the sport. We’re excited to be a part of it, and I’m looking forward to competing tomorrow night.”
said Heacock is the “leader in his class.” “He’s a guy that everybody likes to be around because he’s in a good mood,” Tillman said. “He’s a guy that regardless of what’s happening around him, he makes the team better, because the guys are in a better place because they’re laughing and they’re joking when he’s with them.” Heacock took a beating to score his second goal Tuesday, but his final score came much easier. With the team holding a 9-0 advantage with less than eight minutes remaining in
the third quarter, Heacock received a pass in the center of the field and dodged right before cutting back to his left. He sprinted a few steps, leaped off his right foot and whipped a shot past Rose. Part of the reason for Heacock’s newfound confidence, Tillman said, is his comfort level with playing in the midfield. After playing as an attackman in high school, the Terps asked Heacock to move to the midfield. “There isn’t a more selfless guy on our team,” Tillman said. Tuesday, Heacock received his first career start, playing alongside midfielders Henry West and Joe LoCascio. Junior Bryan Cole started the season’s first seven games, but Tillman decided to switch up the lines for Robert Morris. The move proved beneficial. While Rambo, the team’s leading scorer, found the back of the net once, Heacock led the team to its sixth win a row — even if it meant he had to take a couple of nasty falls early in the second quarter. “He’s really only scratched the surface of his ability,” Tillman said. jneedelmandbk@gmail.com
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CENTER BRIONNA JONES (LEFT) boxes out a defender during the No. 1-seed Terps’ 75-57 win over No. 16-seed New Mexico State in the NCAA tournament first round Saturday at Xfinity Center. Fellow center Malina Howard (right) tips off the Terps’ 85-70 victory over No. 8-seed Princeton in the second round Monday. marquise mckine; alexander jonesi/the diamondback
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No. 1-seed Terps look to reestablish post presence entering matchup with No. 4-seed Duke By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Senor staff writer The Terrapins women’s basketball team prides itself on its ability to beat opponents with a variety of styles. The Terps have used a combination of strong guard play and a smash-mouth post presence to win a program-record 26 straight games. In an NCAA tournament-opening win over New Mexico State on Saturday, the Terps pounded the ball to center Brionna Jones, who overpowered the Aggies for 22 points on 7-for-10 shooting. Then in the second round Monday, the Terps used
a different attack against Princeton, as guards Lexie Brown, Shatori Walker-Kimbrough and Laurin Mincy combined for 60 points. Aside from the New Mexico State game, though, the Terps’ frontcourt hasn’t displayed its dominance from the regular season since the start of the Big Ten tournament. So entering Saturday’s Sweet 16 matchup with a Duke squad that often starts three players who are 6-foot-3 or taller, the Terps are looking for improvement from Jones and center Malina Howard, both of whom are expected to play significant minutes. See BIGS, Page 7
Colin Heacock knew he had nowhere to go, but the ball was on the ground and the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team had a man-up opportunity. So the sophomore midfielder stepped between two Robert Morris defenders, scooped up the ball and passed it to a teammate. One of the defenders pushed him backward. The other pushed him down. Heacock fell hard to the turf. He picked himself up, though, noticed an opening near the goal and snuck behind the defense while the Terps worked the ball around the offensive formation. Seconds later, he tumbled to the ground again. But this time, it came after he collided with a defender while slipping his second score of the game past goalkeeper Chase Rose to give the Terps a 4-0 lead. The sequence marked the fifth of six combined goals Heacock scored in the Terps’ past two victories — a 10-8 win over then-No. 2 North Carolina on Saturday and a 13-4 thumping of Robert Morris on Tuesday. Through eight games this
year, Heacock has already surpassed his goal total from last season while asserting himself as a viable option for the Terps offense. For coach John Tillman, the key to the Catonsville native’s recent success is simple. “The big thing with Colin is confidence,” Tillman said. “Coach [J.L.] Reppert has done a really good job of getting him more aggressive and trusting him, and him knowing that we have confidence in him.” Heacock, the No. 4 attackman recruit in the nation entering last season, according to Inside Lacrosse, served as a role player in 2014 while attackman Matt Rambo and midfielder Connor Cannizzaro buoyed the offense as rookies. Relegated to a secondary role, Heacock watched as his fellow freshmen received playing time and earned accolades. This season, though, has been different. With Cannizzaro’s transfer to Denver and midfielder Mike Chanenchuk’s graduation, Tillman was left searching for new offensive weapons. The team received a boost when former Syracuse
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